The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: From development to deep time

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1649, 2014, Pages

  Goswami, A ^a   Smaers, J B ^a,b   Soligo, C ^a   Polly, P D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity; Evolutionary rates; Mammalia; Modularity; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRANIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84925351512     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0254     Document Type: Article

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